Teaching at Cal Poly

"Did you actually do some work while in California" was a comment. Looking at all the National Park Pictures there might be the impression, that this was just a long vacation, but yes I did work and my son attended High School. What did I do? Besides doing part of my regular tasks for my home-university and taking advantage of all the trainings I could do taking advantage of all the trainings I could do I taught a class called GRC 451 "Management Topics in Graphic Communication" which was taught as a class on innovation and entrepreneurship. 


This is me on day one at Cal Poly ready to teach. This picture is unique since I found a much better and faster bike route to campus. 

My class was basically the ASAP-PlaybookASAP-Playbook with some Deep-Dives starting with ideation all the way to pitching. 


I readjusted the lay-out of the room to accomodate groups, not being a big fa of tradtional classroom-layouts. 


We kicked it off with a Brainwalk


generating some great ideas and allowing me to build upon the things students already knew. 


This is a typical excercise trying to get interaction happening. 


"Several people have asked me, "How was the teaching/student experience different from Home/HdM?" 


Actually, not that different, since Cal Poly's "Learning by Doing"-approach is very similar to “Studieren. Wissen. Machen” (Study-Understand-Make things happen) at HdM.


"Learning business by doing business" was - and I hope still is - the slogan of the company I was involved in for 12 year TOPSIM and 


that is why we also included a Scale-Up-Business-Simulation in this class. 


But finally, pitch time!


Kim, who is a professor in the neigboring Journalism-departement and teaching a class on Media Innovation and Entpreneurship Supported me. It was good fun an we ended up with 7 great presentations and business ideas. 


This is part of an acutal reflection paper as well as this one: 


as well as this one: 




















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